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Basic settings
Press Ctrl+O or the options button to open the Options window.
- Search filters. Use this section to specify additional search criteria, e.g. file date and size.
- Display options. Here you can customize the result display.
- Max threads. The maximun number of search threads.
- Grid. Enables/disables the display of row and column grid lines.
- Minimize to tray. If enabled, the minimized program goes to the system tray.
- Enable text search. Enables file content search.
- Auto unmount shares. If enabled, any network drives that were mapped with user name and/or password, are automatically disconnected and you cannot access the files on these resources. Otherwise you need to unmap them manually.
- Message when complete. Display a message when the search process ends.
Net search
Use the Net search tab to customize the search area
Search in selects the area to be searched.
- Entire network. Searches for files on the entire network.
- Excluding these computers. Searches the entire LAN except the computers listed in the box below.
- Only these computers. Searches only the computers listed in the box below.
- Computers with specific IP addresses. Searches only the computers with IP addresses within the specified range. See details below.
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Adds a computer or IP address |
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Deletes a computer or IP address range |
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Edits a computer name or an IP address range |
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Loads a list of computers or IP address ranges from a file |
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Saves the list or IP address ranges to a file |
Hint: You can use wildcards. Wildcards are asterisks (*) or question marks (?). An asterisk matches any number of characters. A question mark matches a single arbitrary character.
If you want to search an IP subnetwork, you must specify its IP address range. For example, if you want to find files on computers in two subnetworks 192.168.10.x and 192.168.11.x - just enter these ranges as shown on the picture below. In this case LAN Search Pro will search all computers with IP addresses from 192.168.10.1 to 192.168.10.254 and from 192.168.15.1 to 192.168.15.254. Click the Auto button to determine the IP Address range of your network automatically.
Hidden folders
You can specify the hidden folders in your network under the Hidden folders tab. You can use this option if there are hidden resources in your LAN and you want LAN Search Pro to discover them.
Folders
Use the Folders tab to specify the folders to be searched.
These settings need to be properly understood to ensure that you always get the expected results. The exclude feature works differently than the include feature as follows:
If the option is set to Only specified folders , LAN Search will crawl only the shared root folders matching the specified name(s) and any subfolders of them. For example, if you select this option and a folder name of movies\*, the following folders and their subfolders will be indexed: \\Server\Movies\Cartoon, \\Server\Movies\Fantasy. However, \\Server\Video\Movies would not be crawled because the engine will not search any subfolders below the root Video folder.
If the option is set to All folders except specified, LAN Search will exclude any shared folders matching the specified name(s) and any subfolders of them. For example, if you select this option and a folder name of *movies\*, the following folders and their subfolders will be skipped when indexing because the string "movies" is in each path: \\Server\Movies, \\Server\MyShare\Video\Movies.
FTP options
Use the FTP tab to enable search on anonymous LAN FTP servers
